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Phil Leeke – The UK University Strike: Don’t Skimp on the Rivets

March 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

For those of you that have spent your week on the picket line, and for those of us who are supporting this strike because we received good university educations from dedicated and content staff and […]

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Guy Standing – How to Value Your Time and not just Your Money

January 17, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Our second brilliant weekend read (the first is here). Economic growth has become toxic, both for the environment and society. Guy Standing is a labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS Cross-posted from Institute […]

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Heather Connolly – British University Strikes: Why They’re Happening and What You Need to Know

November 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the UK the second strike within two years by academics and staff at 60 universities begins. They are opposing the financialisation of higher education. We are very proud that a number of our authors […]

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Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated

November 23, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]

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Guy Standing – Rentier Capitalism is Breeding Neo-Fascism

November 14, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society. Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social […]

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Guy Standing – Sharing Public Wealth: Why We Need a Charter of the Commons

September 25, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Guy Standing argues that we need a progressive charter to recover and revive our commons – including natural resources and social amenities – that are currently being privatised and exploited for commercial incursions. Guy Standing […]

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Milan Babic – Reclaiming the Commons Through State Ownership? Maybe Not

July 30, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. We need local, democratic and sustainable alternatives. Milan Babic is a PhD candidate at the Corpnet research group at the University of Amsterdam. […]

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Renegade Inc: Guy Standing – Rentier Britain, All the rent goes to the 1%

July 15, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

There are three fundamental issues that lie at the heart of our current economic malaise: the first is unearned income and wealth from land rent, the second is the creation of money by privately owned […]

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The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria

January 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]

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Ghent University: ‘We are transforming our university into a place where talent once again feels valued and nurtured’

January 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

“A university is above all a place where everything can be questioned. Where opinions, procedures and habits are challenged. Where there is no place for rigidity.” Read here

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

March 27, 2026 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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